This is Bird Note.

Do you ever wonder where bird sleep?

Let's listen as the last bird sounds of the day recede into nightfall.

All birds need to sleep or at least snooze during each 24 hour period.

Most sleep at night.

Birds don't usually sleep in nests, except to incubate eggs or brewed young.

They search out a place to roost, often selecting the same place night after night.

Songbirds find a protected perch, sheltered from rain and safe from nighttime predators.

Small forest birds often spend the night huddled together in tree cavities.

Woodpeckers cling to vertical tree trunks.

Starlings mass into huge flocks that blanket the trees.

Sea birds select islands or cliffs on which to snuggle in for the night.

Ducks sleep while floating in protected bays.

Birds don't actually tuck their heads under their wings to sleep as we've been led to believe.

But a bird may turn its head around and poke its beak under shoulder feathers to keep it warm.

It's similar to the way we humans pull a quilt up to our nose during a cold winter's night.

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